[W.I.P] Level Helper | Add stuff to your scene faster

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Hi, I am making a Level Helper to add stuff to the scene faster. I wanted to make this to add stuff into my scene faster, and to make levels faster.

Video 1 | Update 1

Video 2 | Update 2

I still need to make the GUI better positioned, and scaled, because right now it fills up alot.

You just select the object you want to spawn and you press Shift + E with your mouse somewhere in the sceneview to spawn it at the mouse.

Those without preview pictures is either particles or other things. But don’t worry, i will add so particles have a preview image, but where it says “Particle” instead.

I will add more features :slight_smile:

Planned features:

Ability to search, | DONE.
Ability to refresh.(No need to re-open when there is a new prefab) | DONE
Make your own catagories | But first i have to find out how, and i will :slight_smile:

More features when i can think of any, or some awesome suggestions.

You are welcome to make suggestions :slight_smile:
I’m learning too, which is a good thing ^.^

And it will be free.

PS. I probably forgot something, but i can’t remember ^.^

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You can now search and refresh so you don’t have to re-open every time there’s a new prefab, or a prefab lesser.

I will try to do the catagories thing, i need some suggestions too. Like what to add, or what i could make better :slight_smile:

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New video, check the first post :slight_smile:
The catagories will be in the next update.

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I might give a try but, have you researched first for similar Assets in store?

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No i haven’t checked the asset store, but i do this because i want to contribute something :slight_smile:

And not only do people benefit from this, i do too because i learn, and find new ways to do things :slight_smile:

Something that motivates me is contributing something i made and is useful. And i’m learning more stuff at the same time :wink:

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Got the catagory thing sorted out :slight_smile:

It works pretty good.

I’m curious how much impact the Level Helper has on the performance, any way to test that out?

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Removing the Level Helper and comparing frame rate with and without?

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Not sure how i can check framerate when not in playmode

EDIT: But it does not look like it has slowed down when i have it on or off, i can’t see a difference, it might be a small difference then.

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My bad, it may indeed be quite difficult to do in edit mode since Update is not called on a frame basis.
But, don’t bash your head with this, the performance hit should be negligible in most cases.

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I will probably have to optimize it, because it reduces the time to load playmode, and compile time. So i will now take some time to optimize till i’m happy with it :slight_smile:

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In case you are still interested, I found that Time.realtimeSinceStartup is updated in edit mode. This should be useful to test performance.

Although not very practical you could at least get a frame rate reading while moving an object, by combining this API with Update()